embarrassed - Story 40051 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering neon sign of "Sam's Pawn & Loan" cast a sickly green glow on the chipped Formica counter. Amelia clutched her worn purse, her knuckles white. Inside, nestled amongst the bills, was a faded photograph of her grandmother, young and radiant, and the pawn shop ticket. She felt a heat creep up her neck as she approached the counter.

The burly man behind the counter, whose nametag read "Hank," barely glanced up. He was too busy polishing a revolver. "Can I help ya?" he grunted, the glint of steel reflecting in his eyes.

Amelia stammered, pointing to the ticket. Her voice was barely a whisper. "I... I think I'm here to reclaim something." Her cheeks felt like they were on fire. She hoped she'd be able to do this.

Emotion: embarrassed

Cluster: Embarrassment

PC1 (Valence): -1.08 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.10

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion embarrassed. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 embarrassed stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the embarrassed emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the embarrassed vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`l`	0.420
`尴尬`	0.341
`C`	0.333
`culp`	0.262
`🤦`	0.256

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.321
`আনন্দের`	-0.230
`seemingly`	-0.227
`і`	-0.225
`আনন্দে`	-0.224